820 Note to the Catalogue of the Birds [Aug, 



tinctly barred in this sex than in either of the other races ; and there 

 are no white medial streaks on the scapularies. The female is at once 

 known by her black throat, passing into rufous with black spots below ; 

 middle of front of neck unspotted rufous ; breast ashy, with a little 

 rufous on the flanks ; and the upper-parts unbarred, instead of having 

 broad black bars as in this sex of the other races. A. atrogularis is 

 common in Asam, Sylhet, and Arakan, from which provinces we have 

 seen many dozens alive at different times, and always true to the 

 distinctive characters here indicated. In the Tenasserim provinces, 

 this race seems to be replaced by the affined Rollulus (?) ocellatus ; 

 and about Pinang the representative is A. (?) Charltoni, (Eyton), though 

 R. (?) ocellatus likewise inhabits the same latitude in the Malayan 

 peninsula, but we have never seen either in Malacca collections. 



No. 1528. Turnix ? A small extra-Indian species, resembling 



the hinder figure of Dr. A. Smith's plate of T. lipurana of S. Africa, 

 except that the bill and feet are yellow, and the forehead, supercilia, 

 cheeks, and breast are bright ferruginous, extending laterally upon the 

 flanks, which have transverse black spots bordered with white ; abdo- 

 minal region white, passing to pale rufous on the lower tail-coverts. 

 Upper-parts with alternately black and deep ferruginous narrow cross- 

 bars, and the feathers more or less edged with yellowish-white : pri- 

 maries plain brown, the three outer with a pale yellowish margin ; and 

 the coverts are speckled with small white spots on a ferruginous ground 

 variegated with black. Bill slender. Wing 3^ in. Tarse -J in. Ha- 

 bitat unknown. Probably China ? Or Philippines ? 



No. 1659. Porphyrio chloronotus, nobis. Similar to P. Al- 

 leni figured in Mr. G. R. Gray's illustrated Genera of Birds,' but 

 very much smaller, the wing but 5f in., bill to gape \\ in., and tarse 

 2 in. Habitat unknown. For dimensions of P. Alleni, vide Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. X, 204. 



No. 1673. Rallus indicus, nobis. Resembles R. aquaticus, but 

 averages a rather larger size, having the wing 5 to 5^ in., and the bill 

 is constantly more robust. Of many dozens of specimens, we have 

 never once seen the pure ashy hue of the under-parts so common in R. 

 aquaticus, there being always much intermixture of brown. Common 

 in L. Bengal, and in India generally. 



No. 1764. Sarcidiornis (?) leucopterus, nobis. This is a very 



